Test 9 · ★ · In the classroom
Jessica's friend says, "Me too, la, but I'm not saying it in French." ("La" means mate.) How would she say "it's easy"?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, La · What happens: say, not say, mean, be · To what, where: friend, French, mate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 20 «In the classroom» of the French course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Jessica's friend says, "Me too, la, but I'm not saying it in French."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jessica | Jessica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Jessica | case |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Me | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Me | punct |
| 7 | Me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 says | ccomp |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 Me | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 la | punct |
| 10 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Me | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 saying | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 saying | nsubj |
| 14 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 saying | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 saying | advmod |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 says | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saying | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 French | case |
| 19 | French | French | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 saying | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Jessica's friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | Jessica's friend = friend | friend | French | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent it=Theme in french=Manner |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: ("La" means mate.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 La | punct |
| 3 | La | La | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 means | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 La | punct |
| 5 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 means | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | La | mate | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Topic |
Sentence 3: How would she say "it's easy"?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 say | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 easy | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 easy | expl |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 easy | cop |
| 8 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 easy | punct |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | La | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | easy property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Très bien.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Très | Très | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | bien | bien | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 Très | flat:foreign |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Très | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
C'est difficile.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C'est | C'est | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 difficile | compound |
| 2 | difficile | difficile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 difficile | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
C'est facile.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C'est | C'est | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 facile | dep |
| 2 | facile | facile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 facile | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
J'ai fini.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | J'ai | J'ai | X | Foreign=Yes | root | root |
| 2 | fini | fini | X | Foreign=Yes | 1 J'ai | flat:foreign |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 J'ai | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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